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Headmaster dies by suicide over ‘pressure to release funds for poorly made Chhattisgarh school’, contractor arrested

The Indian Express·Jayprakash S Naidu·about 1 month ago
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During investigation, police allegedly found the suicide was linked to construction of a school building being executed through the School Management Committee, with Mandal as contractor. Days after a school headmaster died by suicide in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, allegedly under pressure to release funds for a poorly built school, police have arrested the project contractor for abetment to suicide. The incident comes a year after journalist Mukesh Chandrakar was murdered allegedly by a road contractor over a report exposing substandard road work in Bijapur, one of India’s most Maoist-affected districts. On April 22, Raju Pujari, 50, headmaster of a school in Palnar and a resident of Cherpal, was found hanging in a forest near his home. His suicide note allegedly names three men, including Bijapur contractor Devashish Mandal, who was arrested Saturday. At least two more accused are wanted in the case.…

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